Category Archives: Events

CLA Hors D’oeuvre Party Announcement!

It’s never too early to beat the doldrums, or plan to beat the doldrums!! We’re looking to do just that this coming February when we expect the Winter Doldrums to be at their peak! We’d like to gather as many Members as we can to join in celebrating being together, and to break up the monotony and cold of the long winter with some warm cheer and friendly conversation. To that end we’re planning a party on February 24, 2024 at 7 PM at the home of our President, Gareth Bowen and his lovely First Lady Beverley! Their house is down at the end of the long driveway at 739 Gardiner Road in Jefferson in the field overlooking the lake (MAP). Various events have been held there over the years including our first Doldrums party back in February 2020, just before the COVID pandemic started. It was a great party and we’ve wanted to do a repeat of it ever since, and this is the first year when it seems feasible. We hope you can make it!

Mark your calendars!! This party is going happen regardless of the weather, but if there’s a major winter storm underway making travel unsafe or impossible, we’ll put the party off to the following weekend, same time, same place.

Please bring an hors d’oeuvre or light fare dish to add to what is sure to be a smorgasbord of little party delights, and whatever beverage you care to consume. Hope to see you there!

Ice Cream Social Ahead!

Our Annual Ice Cream Social and “Meet & Greet” event is just ahead, this coming Saturday, July 15th from 1:00 PM to whenever, to be held at the Clary Lake dam on the Mills Road (Route 218) in Whitefield. This year we’ll have a bunch of canopies set up so we’re not going to let an intermittent shower or two stop us from eating ice cream. In the event however that Saturday ends up torrentially rained out, we’ll postpone the event to the next day, Sunday July 16th, same time, same ice cream. This will be a great opportunity to meet some of the many new CLA members and other people on and around Clary Lake. This event is open to all, not just Clary Lake Association members. The ice cream is free but donations will be gratefully accepted!

Summer 2023 Raffle

This event is also a great opportunity to buy raffle tickets to support the Clary Lake Association’s Dam Repair Fundraising initiative! Talk about a worthwhile goal! First prize is a  Masterbuilt Digital Charcoal Grill + Smoker donated by Louis Doe Garden Center. There are 3 great gift certificates for runner up prizes. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. For more information about the Raffle and how/where to get tickets see the Summer 2023 Raffle page.

In addition to our regular ice cream offerings we’re going to pick up some ice cream sandwiches and a couple of boxes of creamsicles (for that trip down memory lane!) and Linda Gallion will once again be bringing a couple of buckets of her own very excellent home made ice cream (this year it’s going to be Blueberry and Strawberry). Linda and her husband Rick run the Clary Lake Bed & Breakfast. In addition to all the popular ice cream toppings, this year we’re going to have sugar cones which I have it on good authority are the environmentally friendly way to eat ice cream 🙂

Plan on coming and staying a while. There will be tables and chairs set up so you can sit and linger with friends, awnings to get out of the sun, and water to keep you hydrated… and most importantly—plenty of ice cream! There is also ample parking and you can always come by boat, kayak, or canoe. We hope to see you there!!

We’ve added this event to our Events Calendar and here’s a link to add it to your calendar. We’re posting about it early because summer is short and weekends fill up fast! We’ll post a reminder here as the event approaches! Stay tuned!

4th Annual 4th Clary Lake Boat Parade

Shanna Pease hasn’t officially announced this parade yet that I’m aware of, but I corresponded with her a few weeks ago and she assured me the parade is happening. So get ready for the 4th Annual 4th of July Boat Parade on Clary Lake! This is not a Clary Lake Association sponsored event but it is nonetheless a Clary Lake event and we are happy to help promote it and participate in it! Hope to see you out there. Be safe everyone!

Clary Lake
4th of July Boat Parade!!

When: Tuesday, the 4th of July 2023
Where: Clary Lake
Time: 2 PM

Rain or Shine, and likely rain if July is anything like last month!

Details: Decorate your boat and meet down by the public landing for a cruise of the lake!

Don’t Forget to Decorate Your Dock!

For more information or if you have questions please feel free to text or call Shanna Pease at 485-4171.

Upcoming Ice Cream Social and Meet & Greet Event

Mark Your Calendars! Our Annual Ice Cream Social and “Meet & Greet” event will be held on Saturday, July 15th from 1:00 PM to whenever, at the Clary Lake dam on the Mills Road (Route 218) in Whitefield. In the unlikely event of inclement weather, the rain date is the next day, Sunday July 16th, same time, same ice cream. We  postponed this event in 2020 and 2021 out of an abundance of caution, due to the pandemic. This will be a great opportunity to meet some of the many new CLA members and other people on and around Clary Lake. This event is open to all, not just Clary Lake Association members. The ice cream is free but donations will be gratefully accepted.

Summer 2023 Raffle

This event is also a great opportunity to buy raffle tickets to support the Clary Lake Association’s Dam Repair Fundraising initiative. Talk about a worthwhile goal! First prize is a  Masterbuilt Digital Charcoal Grill + Smoker donated by Louis Doe Garden Center. There are 3 great gift certificates for runner up prizes. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. For more information about the Raffle and how/where to get tickets see the Summer 2023 Raffle page.

In addition to our regular ice cream offerings, Linda Gallion will once again be bringing a couple of buckets of her own very excellent home made ice cream (this year it’s going to be Blueberry and Strawberry). Linda and her husband Rick run the Clary Lake Bed & Breakfast. In addition to all the popular ice cream toppings, this year we’re going to have sugar cones which I have it on good authority are the environmentally friendly way to eat ice cream 🙂

Plan on coming and staying a while. There will be tables and chairs set up so you can sit and linger with friends, awnings to get out of the sun, and water to keep you hydrated… and most importantly—plenty of ice cream! There is also ample parking and you can always come by boat, kayak, or canoe. We hope to see you there!!

We’ve added this event to our Events Calendar and here’s a link to add it to your calendar. We’re posting about it early because summer is short and weekends fill up fast! We’ll post a reminder here as the event approaches! Stay tuned!

2023 Ice Out Update

Patience! It ain’t out yet but it’s getting closer! You can see what appears to be open water on the far side of the lake on this web cam picture, but it’s not open, it’s just dark water logged ice  and it’s more like a large section in the middle of the lake. I wouldn’t be walking around out there anymore.

Clary Lake Birding and Marsh Paddle Event

American Bittern, often heard if not seen on Clary Lake!

In what is becoming a most welcome annual event, experienced Clary Lake birder Malcolm Burson has offered to guide a small group of kayakers and canoeists on an early summer Birding event up into the great Marsh at the outlet of Clary Lake. Both Malcolm and his partner Eleanor Goldberg are long time birders with considerable experience spotting and identifying birds. The tentative date of the tour (to be confirmed as it nears) is Saturday, May 27th, with Sunday the 28th as a rain date. The event is expected to last about an hour and a half. To keep the group small and intimate, we’d like to limit participation to no more than 5-7 kayaks or canoes (no motorboats please, but electric motors are OK). We’ll be filling slots on a first come, first serve basis. If there is sufficient interest we’ll schedule a second event later in the summer on a date to be determined. Continue reading →

[UPDATE] Time is Running Out to Enter the Ice Out Contest!

Time is running out to enter the 2023 Ice Out Contest! We’ll be stopping accepting guesses at the end of the day on Wednesday, March 15th.  There are currently 29 guesses. It’s not cheating to look at our Ice In and Ice Out Dates page! You’ll find a description of the prizes, the contest rules, and the entry form here: 2023 Clary Lake Ice Out Contest!

[UPDATE] Remember, you can enter more than once but only your LAST entry will count!

Here are the guesses so far:

2023 Ice Out Guestimates

These are the guesses for ice out. The timestamp column will be used to decide on who was first in the event of a tie. I'll try and keep this more or less up to date. Hint: you can sort on any of the columns by clicking on the header:
TimestampYour name:Ice Out Guess:
3/12/2023 19:22:09Sue Webb3/17/2023
3/1/2023 14:22:10Stephen Viti3/21/2023
3/13/2023 23:19:11Megan Luisi3/22/2023
3/1/2023 14:08:55Randall B Wing3/23/2023
3/1/2023 16:41:05Jack Holland3/23/2023
3/1/2023 11:06:25Karen Stutzer3/24/2023
3/1/2023 12:36:22June Relyea3/26/2023
3/1/2023 16:06:19Anya Lagasse3/26/2023
3/1/2023 13:47:45Jay Bridgforth3/27/2023
3/4/2023 11:40:18Carolyn Curtis3/27/2023
3/1/2023 16:13:16Dan Burns3/28/2023
3/1/2023 21:04:18Sophie Seba3/28/2023
3/1/2023 16:50:39Megan Breece3/29/2023
3/8/2023 8:53:45Linda S Gallion3/30/2023
3/2/2023 18:16:36Thomas Gillette3/31/2023
3/6/2023 16:42:51Cheryl Smith3/31/2023
3/10/2023 11:35:09Steve Relyea4/1/2023
3/13/2023 18:59:22Ronnie Spann4/1/2023
3/12/2023 14:04:17Rick Gallion4/2/2023
3/14/2023 12:06:28Gayle Knight4/3/2023
3/1/2023 13:41:57Sarah Hazelton4/4/2023
3/1/2023 19:40:31David L Marsh4/4/2023
3/8/2023 10:48:13Brian Vogel4/4/2023
3/13/2023 18:06:57Beverley Bowen4/4/2023
3/1/2023 15:54:06Julie Anderson4/5/2023
3/3/2023 8:35:39Cindy Norman4/5/2023
3/1/2023 11:39:48Bill Hall4/6/2023
3/10/2023 10:19:24Michelle Pinkham4/6/2023
3/14/2023 12:08:25David Knight4/7/2023
3/10/2023 10:20:24Steve Pinkham4/9/2023
3/1/2023 16:56:40Dedi Rapp4/10/2023
3/15/2023 10:05:50Vicky Grimaldi4/12/2023
3/15/2023 11:23:56Ellis Percy4/12/2023
3/4/2023 11:29:37June m Lordi4/10/2023
3/1/2023 13:44:12DONNA Roeckel4/13/2023
3/13/2023 20:24:48Wynne Keller4/13/2023
3/13/2023 19:02:50Charlene Andersen4/14/2023
3/1/2023 13:08:23Kate Seba4/25/2023

 

2023 Clary Lake Ice Out Contest!

This is our fourth year running a Clary Lake Ice-Out contest. This year’s prize for first place is a $25 Gift Certificate to The Jefferson Scoop. Yay Ice Cream! If you guess the correct ice-out date  or come closest without going past it, you’re the winner. It’s quite likely that the ice will go out before the Scoop actually opens for business. You were warned. In the event there are two (or more) people who guessed the same winning date, the person guessing first (based on the recorded timestamp) will be the winner and the other less-lucky (but still lucky!) person (or persons!) will win a laminated 8.5″ x 11″ Clary Lake Depth Map as a runner up prize (see below). FYI, the earliest the lake has been deemed completely free of ice was on March 13, 2016; the latest the ice has gone out was on April 24, 2001. Last year’s “official” ice out date was March 29th which was correctly guessed by Vicki Grimaldi. She won a beautiful 12″ H x 15″ W framed loon photograph taken by David Hodsdon. We also awarded some second places prizes to a couple of lucky but not that lucky people. Visit our Ice In and Ice Out page to see all our historical data back to 2001. Reviewing historical ice-in and ice-out data is NOT CHEATING!.

Clary_Lake_and_Meadow_Depth_Map_version_1.4

We’ll be closing the contest to new guesses late on March 15th or sooner if it looks like ice out is actually imminent. Guess as often as you want, but remember: only your last guess counts! Here’s the Entry Form: Continue reading →

Upcoming Ice Cream Social and Meet & Greet Event!

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2019 Ice Cream Social

Mark Your Calendars! The Clary Lake Association is hosting an Ice Cream Social and “Meet & Greet” event on Saturday, July 16th from 1:00 PM to whenever, at the Clary Lake dam on the Mills Road (Route 218) in Whitefield. In the unlikely event that this event has to be called on account of inclement weather, the rain date is the next day, Sunday July 17th, same time, same ice cream. The last time we had an ice cream social was in 2019. This will be a great opportunity to meet some of the many new CLA members and people on and around Clary Lake, hence the “Meet & Greet” part.  This event is open to all, Clary Lake Association members as well as our Community friends and neighbors. If you’re not currently a Member, consider becoming one! The ice cream is free but donations will be gratefully accepted. Continue reading →

A Harvest Message

Hello to all who take an interest in Clary Lake – those who live on its shores, members and non-members alike, friends and family who come to visit lakeshore owners, those who make use of the State boat launch and those of you who are catching this message by way of just checking in on the website.

Over this last Spring/Summer season we have all been delivered a bit from the intrusions and curtailments that a climate of pandemic has generated. What a blessing it was to be out in Nature and partake of the many activities in and around the lake with friends and loved ones. We were able to safely congregate for an Ice Cream Social and to hold our Annual Meeting, seemingly without detriment to anyone’s health. We hope, as we move further and further away from precaution-minded operating in the world, that we can add to these gatherings, other events on a regular basis; events you can always count on annually, such as an annual Marsh Tour, Coffee Clutch/’Dock Hopping’ events out on the lake; 4th of July CLA float; Community Cookout; Harvest Pot Luck; Winter Ice Frolic* and February Doldrums Hors d’oeuvres Party, to name a few! Continue reading →